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Maintenant #99 – Rhys Trimble
An interview with Rhys Trimble by SJ Fowler.
It's long been said that those really breaking new ground in contemporary poetry are more rooted in tradition than those now considered 'traditional.' It's all a matter of perspective. If tradition is following those who taught you, or published you, one generation back, then its quite possible that tradition is a shallow pool. Rather, if someone's poetry, like that of Rhys Trimble, has its roots in a few thousand years of a heritage often defined by its poetry, its song, its language and all this founded on a fundamental sense of rebellion and resistance, then perhaps we might look to them for understanding of poetry's past and future. A Welsh avant-garde pioneer, a peerless performer, highly adept in the classical tradition of Welsh poetry while seemlessly penning some of the most exciting, linguistically innovative works of the 21st century in Britain, Rhys Trimble is the kind of poet all of Europe and beyond should know, but who lie, erroneously, beyond the awareness of the many. Welsh poetry has long been shadowed by the morose, or those who bring in flocks of tourists, and in that shade a whole generation of brilliant avant-garde poets has sprung up, a teeming scene of innovative poetics in both Welsh and English languages, from Newport to Cardiff, from Bangor to Aberystwyth, as has been explored by the Gelynion project.. Rhys Trimble is at the forefront of this movement. In the 99th edition of the Maintenant series, we interview our first Welsh respondent, Rhys Trimble.
3:AM: Your own poetry is extremely vibrant both on the page and in performance. Do you have a marked division between the two in terms of your writing process?
Rhys Trimble: No division as such. Insofar as I don't write things especially for performance, I just select what works come to hand and try to gauge what will go down best in an individual performance situation. Sometimes the performance might be augmented with medieval Welsh cannon, Shakespeare or whatever I know off by heart and/ or found texts or other poetry. The problem I have with the division between written and things that only happen live (like banging a stick &c) is that in the past I've not been not doing so much of my own work for fear of a conservative audience, and so relying on performative elements like learnt poems and theatricality instead. I am now finding like-minded folk in London and Manchester who also blur these boundaries between literary poetry and performance, and when performing for this kind of audience I use my mainly my own books as a loose score for a performance and each becomes as different as I can make it.
3:AM: Is learning poetry off by heart so you can recite from memory a self-imposed practise? Or a legacy from your education? I know it was a fundamental part of Victorian pedagogical practise, and in Russia and Eastern Europe too it's considered a mark of poetic education, though it seems rare in contemporary UK poetry circles…
Yes it's largely self-imposed – it's possibly a slightly ironic admiration of 'Victorian pedagogic practice' as you say. More though, I see it as it as a useful device in situations where you need to fill in gaps in the performance space, interact more directly with an audience free of paper – provide different textures or while doing a performance with music for example – it's a wise technique having a few 'riffs' up your sleeve in guitar improvisation. I think is certainly a part of a poetic education of many cultures including welsh and I respect that practice.
3:AM: & was there a time where you mediated your performance, and perhaps even your writing because of the conservatism you reference?
RT: It's more a case of sampling everything without bias including techniques that may be considered part of a conservative tradition but are just ways of doing things. I don't think there is an implicit ideology in learning poems off-by heart especially in the avant-garde context in which I use them.
3:AM: How important is performance to you, and how much has your unique style of address developed with consideration? Is it a natural mode for you, it certainly seems so striking not just because of its intensity and power, but because it seems thoroughly authentic.
RT: Important. Yes performance is quite 'holy' for me – a secular sacrament. It's fairly natural and has developed from doing many performances, mixed with instinct. It was also a reaction against the problematic of overly 'religiose' and classroom-y /without-passion readings one finds – the kind of thing that blights some 'straight' poetry. The split into anti-elitist slam-style or performance poetry, and this is very staid but perhaps more content-orientated reading -I thought- needed putting back into one package which I see other linguistically innovative poets are doing also. I had a good reaction in London and the guy who does Hi Zero magazine (Joe Luna) asked if the initial medieval welsh stick bombast was a 'spell' -as if to 'cleanse a space' and struck a chord— this is how it has developed – from the realisation that performance is a different space from the page and suggests a new set of techniques to successfully realise and address that individual place– to include –dramatic and improvisational techniques which are sometimes ignored as tools for poets- though much less so in innovative circles—for me performance borders on the spiritual I suppose.
3:AM: The current community of Welsh poets seems, on the outside, to have an inclusive, open and dynamic feel to it at times, the work of Zoe Skoulding springing to mind. How do you perceive it?
RT: Zoe was and is a mentor of mine. She has a very open and European stance on things- reaching out beyond the domestic which has been a great example for me. However she is by no means representative, a lot of the literary establishment seem quite conservative to me at the moment. There are some interesting 'heads' out there: Steven Hitchins, Chris Paul, Nathan Jones and Lyndon Davies and so on. I feel that most welsh poets of interest are lone wolves who perhaps due to low numbers fail to cohere into a movement as happens in London for example which is why I'm reaching out. Having said that I feel that Welsh voices now seem more confident in finding different new poetries and not feel it necessary to stick to traditional styles and modes and poetics.
3:AM: How much has the activities at Bangor, and the North Wales International Poetry Festival had an impact on the possibilities for contemporary Welsh poetry to be more innovative? The line-ups are a remarkable example of the best of European poetry, so many Maintenant interview respondents in there too!
RT: The mainstream has a gift for ignoring things so I don't think it would have a direct or obvious influence immediately – local attendances where patchy at the last one. Having said that with any great festival those that participated will have gone away more resolute, having forged a number of personal connections and networking possibilities to explore and this will no doubt produce good work and exciting new influence throughout the welsh scene – I certainly hope to get involved with that scene as a result of seeing amazing people like Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl, Bartlomiej Majzel and many others performing here.
3:AM: Is Peter Finch an important figure in later 20th century Welsh poetry too? He seems to have been, at times, a beacon on the scene.
RT: For me definitely. I found some copies of his 70s mag Second Aeon back home in Swansea which got me started on the trail of the experimental, and only now am I comprehending some of the innovations in his own work as an early example of conceptual poetry and whose performance technique is very highly developed. I see him as a lone wolf, again – an iconoclast who went to London did his thing then brought it home – his work with Academy (Now "Literature Wales") was also valuable as was his tenure running a bookshop in Cardiff the influential Oriel Bookshop.
3:AM: How does the tradition of mixed languages influence your own use of Welsh and English? I'm thinking of the work of Caroline Bergvall and Pierre Joris.
RT: More recently certainly. Initially I tried it as a compromise between using just English or just Welsh and using the 'other' in text seem to crop up in Pound and William-Carlos-Williams and so on. It was a kind of joke replacing the Greek or Latin of Pound or David Jones with Welsh seemed to be a play on elitist practices in poetry. When I found Joris' and Bergvall's usage that provided me with a sound theoretical framework for developing these ideas and also made me realise that I didn't want to be tied particularly to one cultural tradition as such but to drift (nomadically) between the two – a more European model for language relations and one which suggests ways forward for contemporary welsh writers I hope.
3:AM:How important is song to your work? The musicality of your performance often blurs the line between the two immense traditions of folk and poetry, a boundary which I think is very exciting to consider.
RT: It's such a Welshman's cliché but perhaps musicality, if not song, makes its way into my work and performance. In written work it's the alliterative and sound aspects which are borrowed from song. Of course Welsh language poetry is a song / poem hybrid which uses cynghanedd (the welsh system of alliteration and internal rhyme) which amounts to a systematization of poetry that brings it in line with our rules for western music but working on verbal sounds instead of tonal sounds. Any exposure to it results in it creeping into your work it's everywhere here- place names and phraseology! Certainly the welsh tradition of poetry has an effect of what you feel you are allowed to do -sanctioned to do, and you have to look beyond the English tradition at poets like Anthony Joseph and Lemn Sissay to see a parallel tradition of song and poetry blurring together in a naturalistic way. In my own performance I'm doing the cover-versions of Welsh medieval poetry pen pastwn (with stick) whereas my own written work is more in the linguistically innovative idiom – I've yet to fuse the two things successfully but will try to mix the two traditions more elegantly in the future. Using the stick led me into taking an interest in more formal percussion such as kit-drumming so musicality and song feeds the poetry and vice-versa.
3:AM:In your experience, as an active and unusually agile Welsh poet, has the movement to restore the Welsh language seen a marked increase in Welsh language poetry?
RT: Yes I think bilingualism promotes an agility which can be applied to other techniques in poetry such as making hybridised texts which are macaronic in more than one sense. I think agility implies an instinctiveness also which I would also self-apply instead of a cerebral poet which some innovative contemporaries are to my admiration. As far as Welsh language poetry it seems to be doing well and there is a lot of interest in cynghanedd. It's an unbroken tradition of writing in the stict metres of cynghanedd that goes back to the first competitions (eisteddfod) beginning in the middle ages. I find that side of things quite conservative and daunting (but also very interesting)- there are texts on aesthetics and so on going right back to the middle ages – so if you're going to try you better know what you're doing. This unfortunately creates quite a split in Welsh language culture that learners or people who would like to write casually feel excluded from this 'high art' so we're not seeing an increase as such. I'm trying to bridge this gap in a way though I'm not part of the Welsh language poetry scene really yet (except in the small anarchist zine scene) but I will continue to try and get in!
3:AM: Is there a radicality of tradition in Welsh language poetry? Has that tradition housed stylistically inventive and rebellious writers easily, or often, historically speaking, in your view?
RT: I've been looking for them and there aren't that many. Because welsh poetry is so demanding technically and basically puts sound on a par with meaning – you end up with poetry which is half-way towards being a sound poem anyway reducing the need to rebel in a formally technical way – there's so much scope as it is. There is a fair amount of radicality in the ideological sense with communard writers such as T.E. Nicholas having been popular. Alec Newman pointed out that the welsh took to symbolism early on and there are examples such as Euros Bowen and others who wrote in the 60's they were throwing words around the page and using a very intricate metaphorical language along with traditional elements. Since then though it's gone back to a more traditional style in the Welsh mainstream. The main group of rebels we have recently that eschew the formal meters and write free stuff like punk-poetry – are often musicians like David R. Edwards of Datblygu fame ( The Welsh 'Fall') or Steve Eaves which is what my welsh poetry is coming out like at the moment.
3:AM: What is the relationship of Welsh poetry to the English language in your opinion?
RT: My view is that it mirrors the language status of the Welsh people writing it, which has its various demographics. Welsh speakers are committing a political act just speaking welsh so they are partisan and therefore keep everything in the Welsh language though they are all bilingual, its this occlusion that keeps Welsh culture separate from English culture and they think stronger I guess – though this leads to an ever decreasing inner-sanctum of speakers. English speaking Welsh people will either forge a welsh identity in English -creating the Anglo-Welsh scene as was with mags like Poetry Wales being the prime exemplar of this. Those that speak English and can't be bothered with the political aspect of being Welsh will try and absorb themselves into English culture and not self-identify as Welsh perhaps. I myself do none of the above and try to fight on all sides at once, I use Welsh or English in a fairly non-partisan way to explore language. So to answer your question it's complicated!
ABOUT THE INTERVIEWER
SJ Fowler is a poet, artist, curator and vanguardist. He has published seven collections of poetry, the latest being {Enthusiasm} from Test Centre, and been commissioned for original works of poetry, sonic art, visual art, installation and performance by Tate Britain, Tate Modern, the London Sinfonietta, Electronic Voice Phenomena and the Liverpool Biennale. He is the poetry editor of 3:AM magazine, founder of the Maintenant series and curator of the Enemies project.
First published in 3:AM Magazine: Wednesday, May 27th, 2015.


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The A. B. Freeman School of Business is the business school of Tulane University, located in New Orleans, in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The school offers undergraduate programs, a full-time MBA program and other master's programs, a doctoral program, and executive education. It was a charter member of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business in 1916.

The school is known in the finance community as the publisher of Burkenroad Reports, and is regularly ranked among the top schools in finance. Additionally, Entrepreneur Magazine has ranked the Freeman School among the top twenty schools for entrepreneurship, giving the school a ranking of No. 4 in 2009. In 2018, the Freeman School's MBA program was ranked 46th in the nation by Bloomberg Businessweek and the undergraduate program was ranked 44th by U.S. News & World Report.

The school's main location, in the center of Tulane's Uptown New Orleans campus, is across a pedestrian thoroughfare (McAlister Place) from the university's student center. The school was named in honor of A. B. Freeman, a former chairman of the Louisiana Coca-Cola Bottling Co. and a prominent New Orleans philanthropist.

History
In 1914, Tulane University's business school was founded as the College of Commerce and Business Administration. Two years later, the school became one of the fourteen founding members of the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the nation's leading accrediting body for business schools. In 1940, the school began offering the Master of Business Administration program. The Doctor of Philosophy program began in 1976, and the Executive MBA program began in 1983.

In 1986, the school moved from Norman Mayer Memorial Hall, one of the oldest buildings on Tulane's campus, to Goldring/Woldenberg Hall. In 2018, a renovation and addition was completed, making it the Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex (GWBC).

Academic programs

Degrees
The school offers a Bachelor of Science in Management degree, as well as numerous graduate degrees, including the Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Accounting (MACCT), Master of Business Analytics (MANA), Master of Finance (MFIN), Master of Management (MMG), and Master of Management in Energy (MME).

Double-degree programs
Double-degree offerings include, but are not limited to, the BSM/Master of Accounting, BSM/MBA, MBA/Master of Sustainable Real Estate Development, MBA/MD, MBA/JD (Law), MBA/MPH (Health Systems Management), and MBA/MA (Latin American Studies).

Signature programs

Burkenroad Reports

Burkenroad Reports provides stock analyses of small- to mid-size companies throughout the Texas to Florida region of the United States. Many of these companies would otherwise not be covered by bulge bracket financial firms; consequently, the reports provide unique information that investors rely on, which helps the followed companies gain access to capital. Students are the primary authors of the reports, and they get the opportunity to visit the followed companies and interview top management. This process allows students to gain practical and marketable stock analysis skills, as well as insight into strategic management. The Burkenroad Reports program celebrated its 25th year in 2018.

Darwin Fenner Student Managed Fund
In the Darwin Fenner Student Managed Fund course, students actively manage more than $5.8 million of Tulane University's endowment in three separate equity portfolios – and regularly beat the benchmark indexes. Students are empowered to manage real risk with real money by studying academic research and learning methods for analyzing stocks while managing a mid-cap or a small-cap portfolio. Students utilize the software and databases used by professional fund managers, including Bloomberg Terminals, ThomsonOne.com, Standard & Poor's Net Advantage, and Standard & Poor's Capital IQ.

Aaron Selber, Jr. Courses on Distressed Debt and Hedge Funds
In the Selber courses, students dedicate an entire semester to learning about distressed debt (each spring) or hedge funds (each fall). Students can apply to take one or both courses, which complement topics in the traditional long-only equity or investment grade bond world.

Global Leadership Program
As part of their international-business concentration, all Freeman MBAs complete Global Leadership Modules on conducting business in Latin America, Europe and Asia. Each module includes a trip to the region being reviewed, where classes are taught at local business schools and students get the opportunity to visit local businesses. Recent visits took place in Paris, Beijing, Monterrey, and Buenos Aires. Schools visited have included ITAM, Tsinghua University and EGADE.

Trading room

The Freeman School's trading room has ninety-eight flat-screen computer monitors, televisions to provide news coverage, and a stock ticker monitor. All the desks have access to Bloomberg and Reuters financial databases. The trading room is meant to resemble spaces that can be found usually at banks and brokerage houses.

Campus
The Freeman School's main building, the Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex, sits in the center of Tulane's Uptown New Orleans campus, which is located on St. Charles Avenue, across from Audubon Park. The GWBC houses the undergraduate and graduate business programs and features a trading room.

In 2019, the Freeman School opened the Stewart Center CBD, a new facility in downtown New Orleans, for executive and international programs.

Current faculty

Deen Kemsley, bulge-bracket accounting consultant
Peter Ricchiuti, founder of Burkenroad Reports, former state chief investment officer
Paul Spindt, former chair of the Federal Reserve System
Scott Cowen, Tulane University president and economics professor

Notable alumni

C.W. Lemoine Author and Air Force aviator.
Ricardo Salinas Pliego, MBA 1979, Mexican businessman, CEO of Grupo Elektra, 154th wealthiest person in the world in 2008 (worth $6.3 billion)
Regina Benjamin, MBA 1991, former Surgeon General of the United States
Andrew Friedman, BSM (Finance) 1999, became General Manager of the Tampa Bay Rays at age 28
Dominik Knoll, M.B.A., CEO of World Trade Center New Orleans
Sammis Reyes (2018), business management graduate and sportsperson who later became the first Chilean to play in the NFL
Eleni M. Roumel, MBA 2000, Judge, United States Court of Federal Claims
William A. Goldring (BBA '64), Chairman, Sazerac Company, Inc.

Rankings
Several news publications, including the Financial Times, Forbes, América Economía and the U.S. News & World Report, regularly rank the Freeman School among the top 50 business schools in the nation. Individually, the Finance department has been ranked among the top 10 in the world by the Financial Times on several occasions. Also, Entrepreneur Magazine has consistently ranked Freeman among the top 20 schools for entrepreneurship.

The Freeman School's Finance department was ranked 6th in the world by the Financial Times in 2005, and 10th in 2008.

U.S. News & World Report ranked the MBA program 73rd in 2017.

Financial Times ranked the MBA program 35th in the U.S. in 2010 and 46th in 2008

Entrepreneur Magazine ranked the MBA program 4th in 2009, 17th in 2008, and 13th in 2006

AméricaEconomía magazine ranked the MBA program 24th in 2008 and 22nd in 2006

Fortune magazine's list of the Top 50 B-Schools for Getting Hired ranked the MBA program ranked 39th in February 2007 (Forbes ranked the MBA program 44th in 2007, and 52nd in 2009)

Undergraduate business program ranked 43rd by U.S. News & World Report in September 2008. The Executive MBA program ranked 6th in Latin America by AméricaEconomía magazine in August 2006.

In 2013, Tulane University reported that admissions figures for the business school had been falsified from 2007 to 2011, including increasing the average GMAT scores of students and the number of completed applications.

See also
List of business schools in the United States
List of United States business school rankings
Tulane Corporate Law Institute

References

Business schools in Louisiana
Tulane University
Educational institutions established in 1914
1914 establishments in Louisiana

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Q: Closed $n$ cell and Hausdorff property proof Problem: Assume $Y$ is Hausdorff and $E$ is a closed $n$ cell in $Y$ where $n>0$. If $\Phi: D^n\rightarrow E$ is a homeomorphism then $\Phi(D^n\backslash \mathbb{S}^{n-1})$ is an open $n$ cell in $Y$ with closure $E$.
My attempt:
Note that $\overline{D\backslash \mathbb{S}^{n-1}}=D^n$. Hence,
As $\Phi$ is a homeomorphism,  $\overline{\Phi(D^n\backslash \mathbb{S}^{n-1}})=\Phi(\overline{D^n\backslash \mathbb{S}^{n-1}})=\Phi(D^n)=E$. Note that $\Phi$ is a homeomorphism and so restricting to $D^n\backslash \mathbb{S}^{n-1}$ we get a homeomorphism onto its image.
Why is the Hausdorff property required?

A: If $Y$ is not Hausdorff, then there is no reason to expect that $\overline{\Phi(D^n\backslash \mathbb{S}^{n-1}})=\Phi(\overline{D^n\backslash \mathbb{S}^{n-1}})$ in $Y$. It is only correct for the closure in the subspace $E$. Example:
Let $Y = D^n + S$, where $S$ is any non-empty set. Give $Y$ the topology consisting of all open subsets of $D^n$ and $Y$ itself.

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Supreme Court confirmation leaves students and faculty wondering about the future social, economic issues
October 28, 2020 2:58 am by Jorgelina Manna-Rea, STAFF WRITER
After judge Amy Coney Barrett joined the bench as an associate justice of the Supreme Court on Monday, students and faculty considered what her lifelong appointment could mean for hot-button matters such as racial discrimination, LGBTQ rights and health care. SPECIAL TO THE ORACLE
As if the upcoming election wasn't haywire enough, the recent confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Monday night has left many students concerned about the future of civil rights for marginalized groups.
Between Barrett's confirmation being so close to Election Day and her conservative Christian values worrying those who hold more liberal beliefs, there's been a mixed response of acceptance and fear surrounding her new place on the court, and USF students aren't exempt from this.
Appointing a justice is not an everyday occurrence. With their lifelong terms and a panel of only nine, whenever a seat opens up there is an uproar. Many see the ratio between left- or right-leaning justices as an important factor in determining the outcomes of cases that affect prominent issues such as abortion, health care, LGBTQ rights and racism.
Many also believe she will be a residual, long-lasting stamp of the Trump administration.
"Her confirmation will only continue to divide the people in this nation further," said chemistry student Syed Hasan. "More divisive than we already are."
There are some who don't share Hasan's view, and consider Barrett a positive addition to the court.
"Justices aren't meant to be appointed based on personal opinion but on morality and quality of character," said freshman chemistry student Daniel Hunte. "As far as that goes, I don't think there's any reason not to appoint [her], she's an excellent person."
But the news on Barrett's confirmation seems to hit some harder than others.
"When I first saw the headline, I felt the same way I did when Trump got elected in 2016," said freshman chemistry student Kylie Parker. "Of course I'm scared and disappointed, but I also feel numb because nothing 'bad' has technically happened yet."
Parker, a member of the LGBTQ community and reliant on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for health insurance, said the confirmation has made her feel helpless about the future.
Many students rely on the ACA for health insurance, as it allows them to stay on their parents' insurance until they're 26 years old instead of releasing them from it at 18.
"[I'm] stressed about whether or not I'll still have insurance in a few months," said senior English student Nicole Coppage.
The Supreme Court is expected to make two votes regarding the ACA within the year. One determines whether or not the ACA's individual mandate for a minimum amount of health insurance coverage is constitutional or not, and if it isn't, the ACA could be done away with entirely, according to the American Bar Association.
"The ACA contains dozens and dozens of features beyond the health benefit component," said Senior Associate Dean of Morsani College of Medicine and Associate Vice President of USF Health Jay Wolfson. "That includes training components for nurses, physicians and physician's assistants, they include labeling products for caloric value, they include significant aspects of fraud reduction and abuse control."
Discussion on whether or not the ACA will stand in the next year also has USF students concerned about the possibility of retroactive decisions made regarding other famous Supreme Court cases like Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized gay marriage nationwide in 2012.
"As a bisexual man who just recently got the right to marry in 2012, it feels like a huge slap in the face to watch as Republicans push forward a judge onto the seat to further their political agenda, one such priority being to reverse the legalization of gay marriage as stated on Page 31 of their GOP political platform PDF," said freshman mass communications major Christian Padgett.
The Republican Party's official 2016 platform, the party which Barrett is affiliated with, takes the stance that marriage should be recognized by law as "the union of one man and one woman."
A lot of the concern over Barrett's presence on the court is due to her personal beliefs, which people have concluded are conservative through the history of her career decisions. This includes issues of systemic racism in the U.S.
"Since the end of the [Chief Justice Earl] Warren court, the Supreme Court has become less and less amenable to understanding racial discrimination as a structural problem as opposed to an individual one," said David Ponton III, assistant professor at the USF School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies. "Plaintiffs have since had to prove that racism and racist effects are intentional and identify a specific actor as responsible.
"Amy Coney Barrett went even further in her employment discrimination cases, saying that the use of the n-word by an employer to an employee is not enough evidence to win a suit of workplace discrimination. Since she is clearly not an anti-racist, I can only conclude that the Senate has added another racist to the Supreme Court."
Despite a substantial amount of disapproval by some, there are those who stand by the faith in the judiciary as a system intended to operate by the law alone, separate from personal beliefs.
"I understand people's worries about her conservative views, however, the articles I have read [have] shown she goes by the Constitution, which is a good thing," said junior chemical engineering major Mason Perlman.
Barrett's confirmation isn't decidedly about winning a conservative majority in the Supreme Court. It's more about re-election tactics according to J. Edwin Benton, professor at the College of Arts and Sciences who specializes in elections and the influence of courts.
"What happened is purely political for Trump, [South Carolina Sen. Lindsey] Graham, who needs more support in the ballot box, [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell and even other Republicans who have hitched their wagon, if I can say it that way, to the fortress of Donald Trump," said Benton.
The timeliness of Barrett's confirmation has also been a point of contention for those who disapprove of her new position, considering the arguments that ensued among politicians in 2016 when former President Barack Obama was at the end of his term and able to fill a vacant seat.
"The reason why the Democrats are crying foul is because [they're saying] 'OK, you do have the right to do that, but what did you do five years ago when President Obama wanted to appoint Judge [Merrick] Garland?'" said Benton. "The Republicans created a roadblock, wouldn't let it happen, because they wanted that appointment to go to what eventually fell to Judge [Brett] Kavanaugh, a Trump appointee.
"The Republicans played dirty, said we can do this, but you can't do this, and you can't block the nomination. The Democrats would've had no ground to say that if they had allowed Obama to make his appointment, assuming [they] would have been on the [Supreme] Court today."
The lines seem blurred, but no matter how close Election Day is, a vacant seat on the Supreme Court can still be filled, according to Wolfson.
"The reality is that the president of the United States has the prerogative and authority to nominate a vacant seat, and the Senate of the U.S. has the prerogative and requirement to review and make the decision of an appointment," said Wolfson. "So the process as it was is completely and entirely within the guidelines of the Constitution."
Concerns and debates over what Barrett's new presence on the court will do remain, regardless of the legality of her confirmation. On a local and national level, people question how her position will impact the future of federal judiciary decisions.
"If you listen to the hearings, all of the 'hoopla' was around what they perceive that Barrett would do if she were on the court, [including] some very important cases to liberals," said Benton.


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by (author) Jen Larsen
The Big Reveal asks hard-hitting feminist questions while reveling in some of life's greatest joys: chasing your passions, falling in love, and embracing yourself exactly as you are.
Addie is a talented dancer, a true-blue friend, and a fat, fierce, and driven young woman. When she's accepted into the prestigious dance company of her dreams, she thinks nothing can bring her down—until she realizes she doesn't have enough money to go. Refusing to give up, Addie and her friends decide to put on a top-secret, invitation-only burlesque show to raise funds. But word soon gets out, and the slut- and body-shaming begin. Has Addie been resisting the patriarchy, or playing right into its hands?
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At least 31 people are now dead, more than 200 are missing and 250,000 more were forced to flee for their lives from California wildfires over the weekend.
The state known for pushing milestones just surpassed another one: the weekend's fires in Malibu and Northern California became the deadliest fires in state history.
With California burning, the response from the state's liberal political elite? It's climate change, of course.
The wildfire crisis in California, like other crises plaguing the state, are mostly man-made — but not in the way environmentalists would have you believe.
Indeed, the push from the environmentalist lobby on both the state and federal level has led to deadly consequences.
Thirty years of radical environmental policies which prohibit the proper trimming of forests and brush have created a literal tinder box just waiting to ignite.
A Reason Foundation study found that massive reforms were needed to stop the deadly fires. In the study, Reason reported that it was once the top priority of the U.S. Forest service to suppress fires — something the professionals did with great success for four decades. From 1910 to the mid-1950s, forest fires fell from one million to approximately 250,000 and remained so until they began to rise again near the 1990s.
The reduction of fires continued until 1990, when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the spotted owl as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. This set off alarm bells for wildlife and environmental activists. By the time President Bill Clinton left office, he had implemented the 2001 Roadless Rule that restricted use of roads and prevented the building of new roads near nearly 50 million acres of forest. It may have saved the spotted owl, but the result was that it kept forest service professionals from being able to properly clear brush and manage forests. As a result, during Clinton's reign from 1992 to 2000, removal of timber declined drastically and from 2000 to 2013, thanks to his rule there was an 80 percent decline in proper forestry removal to prevent deadly fires.
Adding insult to literal injury in an already-fragile state such as California, around the same time a politician-created drought robbed Southern California of precious water resources thanks to yet another environmentalist charade.
In a move that the National Center for Public Policy Research called "a man-made disaster," Gov. Jerry Brown diverted millions of gallons of water into the San Francisco Bay Area — and away from other parts of California — to save a fish the size of a minnow. The result has been water rationing, the killing of precious crops and the increase of dry lawns and brush surrounding residential areas. The single act of a politician dramatically altering a key source of water in California has placed the life of a small fish above the lives and safety of millions of human beings.
These man-made factors have led to a combustible situation, the likes of which were seen in Malibu and Northern California over the weekend.
Failure to see the cause and effect here is a stubborn refusal to see the evidence and a failure on the part of Democrat leadership and their radical environmentalist base. It's ironic that the same Democrat leaders who often accuse Republicans of failing to pay attention to science are the ones now failing to do so.
Sadly, with Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom stating that this week's fire was caused by climate change, it appears that state leaders have learned absolutely nothing from their mistakes.
Until they do, people will continue to die.
Any future solution to California's vast wildlife crisis will require an honest — one that includes the hard truth — which is that Democrats' long-heralded policies of radical environmentalism, restriction of proper forestry practices and a politician-created drought are what have led to California's losses.
Until they realize they are sacrificing human beings on the altar of their environmentalism, every time we hear of a new death from a senseless wildfire California Democrats and their radical environmentalist friends will continue to have blood on their hands.
Jen Kerns (@JenKernsUSA) served as spokeswoman for the 2007 California wildfires as an appointee of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to the California Insurance Commissioner. She previously served as spokeswoman for the California Republican Party, spokeswoman for Prop. 8 which went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and as a Fox News writer for the 2016 U.S. presidential debates.


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How to seize digital opportunities without undermining real-world relationships
By BookTrib|2018-09-14T17:20:41-04:00September 16th, 2014|Nonfiction|
As the self-proclaimed BookTrib Nerd and digital native, this book by Sarah Granger came across my desk and I was immediately intrigued. In a world of selfies, Instas, tweets and likes it's hard not to get completely wrapped up in the hype of social interaction on the Internet. A daily activity becomes addiction and before you know it you're checking Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, emails, and texts 374 times a day and neglecting "real life."
But it doesn't have to be seen that way, in the excerpt below, from Sarah's book The Digital Mystique, she bridges the gap between past and present interactions amongst humans and takes an empowering stance on how to seize digital opportunities without undermining real-world relationships. Why can't the Internet work for you? Help you grow, learn, and create a positive effect on our lives? It can, and here's why…
The Digital Mystique
By Elisa Camahort Page, Cofounder of BlogHer
In 2006 Betty Friedan died, and my mother told me that Friedan's book, The Feminine Mystique, had changed her life. Inspired and empowered by that book, my mom entered the workforce and forged an entirely new path for herself, becoming my role model in the process. My mom was at the forefront of a cultural revolution . . . second-wave feminism.
In 2006 another cultural revolution was picking up steam: the digital revolution. New levels of access and new tools were driving an entirely new way of connecting and communicating online. A new way to be heard. And it was particularly inspiring and empowering for women and minority segments of the population who felt otherwise unheard. Locked out by traditional gatekeepers.
All of this new opportunity can be both exhilarating and intimidating.
[giveaway giveaway_id=1639 side="right"]I may be the cofounder of a digitally-native company, but I can relate.
I am not a digital native. Born in the final official year of the baby boom, I didn't touch my first computer until I was out of college. I didn't have an e-mail address until I was thirty-three, nor did I put the "personal" in "personal computer" until I was thirty-eight.
Ironically, I worked in tech, helping deliver to market the equipment that delivered the Internet to homes. But until 2003 it was more theory than practice for me.
Ten years ago, that all changed, and I hopped on the social media train early. In fact, before it was called social media!
I was that person patiently explaining that no, being a blogger didn't mean I sat in a basement in my pajamas telling you what I had for lunch.
And yes, I really had made good, true friends online, despite never having met them in real life.
I've tried to explain things like blogs, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and Google Plus to a wide range of those I call "regular people." It's not easy to show.
How I believe something as simple as a Yahoo! Group for owners of cats with kidney disease helped me extend my cat's life to twenty years old.
How women from all walks of life are making money for their words and their work. Money that buys their groceries or pays their rent . . . or just enables them to go out to dinner every now and then, or feel less stressed about money day-to-day . . . even during the toughest economic times in most of our adult memories.
How people dealing with the hardships we usually keep to ourselves . . . post-partum mental health issues, infertility, grief, loss, illness, parenting challenges . . . are finding a circle of 24/7 support that doesn't exist in what geeks affectionately call "meatspace" (aka IRL, in real life). A community of people who opt in to talk about the tough subjects and can always be found. Day in. Day out. In the wee hours. When you know you can't bend your best friend's ear or cry on your partner's shoulder one more time.
How online tools have facilitated revolutions. And social change. And given everyone a voice. You don't have to listen to every voice. Not everyone will listen to yours. But everyone with a mobile phone, library card, or other access to the Internet can get online and change the(ir) world.
Online has become my go-to space for every aspect of my life, truly integrated. And it has brought me knowledge, entertainment, friendship, support, relationships (including my significant other), and ultimately my life's work in BlogHer.
Call me utopian, but I think everyone can find that kind of fulfillment and value navigating the Internet, and Sarah Granger can help you chart your course.
Sarah has been online even longer than I have and is at the forefront of many of the new uses for the World Wide Web. I have seen Sarah leverage the power of digital networks and communications for the personal, the political, and the professional. And I have invited her to many BlogHer conferences to share her knowledge and her advice on how we all can traverse this space as gracefully and effectively.
You may be wary of the downsides and pitfalls. You may be scared of the time suck or invasion of your privacy, perhaps the degradation of your offline community.
But you are in control of your destiny here! Use this book and Sarah's guidance to be the one in charge of—not in thrall to—the wonders of an online life. Use this book to find the inspiration and empowerment enabled by this new cultural revolution.
You'll be glad you did.
Foreword is by Elisa Camahort Page, Cofounder of BlogHer. Excerpted from The Digital Mystique: How the Culture of Connectivity Can Empower Your Life—Online and Off, by Sara Granger. With permission from Seal Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group. Copyright © 2014.
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Emerging markets were volatile throughout 2018, especially during quarter four as they sold off and took some valuation froth out of the market. This has continued into 2019 thus far, but as investors, it's important to step back and take a longer-term view of the situation. I recently sat down with Alex Duffy, Portfolio Manager of the Fidelity Global Emerging Markets Fund to discuss the current situation. We discussed some of the risks, opportunities, and unique dynamics that emerging markets have to offer. Read on below to hear Alex's views.
Why do you love investing in global emerging markets?
I think that the key attraction of global emerging markets is the breadth of the opportunity set. You're dealing with markets that are relatively nascent and that creates an opportunity for good companies to deploy significant amounts of capital at accretive rates of return. If you combine that with a long-term investment time horizon, it creates intrinsic value over three, five, 10 years. That is a unique opportunity set.
The macro is incredibly important to this region and the macro backdrop, at this point, is more uncertain than we've seen in previous years. So how are you approaching both analysing it, seeing it as a backdrop for your investments and then allowing it to influence your investments?
Some of the challenges that are being presented right now result from the impacts of trade wars between the US and China. How that manifests itself in Chinese demand and competitiveness for China has implications for the value of the currency.
The importance of China to emerging markets cannot be understated. That has push-down effects across the rest of the asset class. One of the challenges that presents is that ultimately growth is slowing. We're on the back of a very, very strong period of global growth over the last few years, particularly in the US, but also in China, following that stimulus in 2016 and 2017. We're digesting some of the implications that stimulus created. It's about finding opportunities and managing against that cyclical backdrop.
My base case is that we're going through a softer period, you must identify good businesses that can manage that, that have strong balance sheets and can consistently generate returns. You have to have a strong focus on valuation to provide margins of safety, but most importantly you have to be prepared to embrace some of the volatility, not lose sight of the long term opportunity and actually use that to your advantage, which is really what I'm doing with the portfolio and have been doing over the last six to 12 months or so.
I'll also add on the macro that the hawkish view of the US Federal Reserve has abated somewhat in the last three months. This is material for emerging markets as the outlook for US rates is very important for EM FX and most importantly for China which has been facing challenges of liquidity tightening due to the rising USD and rising US rates. As these headwinds abate, the pressure marginally comes off the RMB, and the Chinese authorities have a little more headroom to stimulate the economy through credit easing. I do not think that this is the start of a major new stimulus cycle, but it does make the environment considerably easier than where we were at the beginning of Q2 2018.
What do you do specifically that would help investors get invested but weather that volatility?
I focus very much on the companies that I'm invested in. Understand the governance structures. Understand the balance sheet structures of those companies. Ensure that both of those parameters provide you with downside protection, so you defend against probability of permanent capital loss. The balance sheets and the incentive structures of management teams should enable the company to invest assertively in its business over three, five, 10-year time horizons. Then finally, ensure that you don't overpay for that at the outset.
You're selecting companies with that type of filtering so that you're selecting investments that are aligned with the end investor's needs?
Absolutely. I think that being invested in this asset class does require something of a long-term view. It requires the ability to weather and be prepared to embrace some of the volatility. But if you do that through good companies, I think that that will be a successful outcome.
As an investor managing the fund on a day to day basis, I'm dealing with some of these more macro and shorter-term currency volatility and overlays from a sector and a country positioning to ensure that we're alive to the opportunities that are presenting themselves. We're also helping to mitigate some of the downside risks through prudent stock selection.
Given the noise in markets, why do you think now is a good time to invest in emerging markets?
I think some of the challenges are very real. There's no point in shying away from the fact that the challenges in China with respect to the deposition, the threats to potential weakening of the RMB because of trade wars. It is very real, but it has to be viewed in the context of the price that you pay for the company that you're buying, that you're invested in, and also the strength of that individual business model.
Now there are some companies that have great brands that invest in technology, who have weaker competitors that are unable to continually invest in their competitive advantages. These companies will strengthen their position over multiple years. They're the companies that I want to be investing more of my capital in today, those companies that can continually invest and take market share, cycle to cycle.
If you were to pick two to three things specifically, how do you differentiate between a good long-term proposition versus a company that's hot right now, but could be overinflated?
What's most important to me is understanding the consistency of return profiles. You manage downside risk by ensuring you've got appropriate alignment from a governance perspective and ensuring that the balance sheet is strong and can survive the vagaries of the economic cycle.
Then it's about understanding consistency of return profiles; the ability of a business to consistently generate a return on capital above its cost of capital and to sustain that over time. We'll look at competitive intensity in the industry structure. What is it that's unique about this particular business from a brand perspective, from a technology perspective, from a geographic natural resource perspective, that enables it to perpetuate that return on invested capital? Then how we value in that cash flow stream; does the valuation give us a margin of safety?
Often emerging markets as an asset class can be very thematic. The advance of passive investing and indexation can create a wall of money going into sectors or certain areas and inflating companies way beyond fair values without a true understanding of the sustainability of those return profiles.
Rising US yields are a real valuation headwind for all assets, not jut emerging market equities. That's resulted in the derating of those valuation multiples for high growth companies. And if you've got companies that are priced for delivering very strong returns, then that return profile isn't sustainable, it creates a real risk of a permanent loss of capital through the multiple derating. So, I focus much more on consistency of returns, deliverability of returns, and a margin of safety from a valuation perspective.
If we were to look at the portfolio today and think about themes and stock stories, what would you highlight today?
If you look at the fund today, there is a focus or that's a dominance of financial companies within the portfolio, so around 30% of the fund is invested in financials. The common theme amongst all of those financials is that they tend to be, in their own market, a very strong deposit taking retail facing banking entity for the most part.
So, you kind of get the demographic play through that?
Absolutely. 100% correct. You've got under-penetrated consumer financing in a lot of these markets, more importantly, deposit taking tends to be under-penetrated. It's all very well lending money, but you need to raise deposits to fund that. So, having a strong deposit franchise provides stability to the balance sheet and it ensures if you've got low-cost deposits, that gives you a competitive advantage in both loan pricing as well as funding risk. So those banks tend to be very interesting. Names like HDFC Bank - very strong franchise in India, under-penetrated market, an ability to deploy huge amounts of capital at attractive 20% rates of return. That drives value over five, 10-year time horizon.
I also think you've got areas of the consumer market in China which look interesting. There is a cyclical slowdown going on that's creating a drawdown in equity prices, but valuations are compelling for certain businesses that are gaining market share. Stocks like Midea, which is cyclical. It sells air conditioning units, so the end market is cyclical. It's had a very strong up-cycle over the last 24 months or so. I do think the way that company is investing in its distribution base to improve incentive structures for its salespeople, which will prevent inventory build in the end channels, prevents discounting, delivers more stability of margins and profitability. Those are companies which are creating value, in these market environments.
Within the demographics theme, which areas are of most interest to you at the moment?
The consumer market is clearly an area where you've got under-penetration of various consumer products all the way from housing and bank accounts down to end consumption of basic products. There's an opportunity to grow brands and to increase penetration levels there, that's an area where demographics clearly play a role.
Education, medical care, etc; these are very large markets in the developed world that are underrepresented within emerging markets because of the base we're starting from, over time they are going to develop. That generally tends to be inevitable.
I think that using technology to enhance adoption of consumption financial products is something we're witnessing right now. If you look at bankerisation within emerging markets, India is an interesting case study. Technological adoption is fast tracking the rate at which the market bankerisation increases, the rate at which financial penetration increases. Often technology is looked at in isolation, but technology is being embedded as an enabler within multiple businesses, so maybe we should move away from the technology sector? I think more about how technology is being used by individual companies and the value that creates in some other areas of the market, be that financials, be that consumer… They're some of the areas which are interesting.
I do think the financial sector, from a penetration perspective, from breadth of products, whether it's insurance products, healthcare products, et cetera, et cetera. I think those areas, on a thematic over the next five, 10, 15 years, are going to be areas to focus on.
But the final point I'll make on demographics is that thematic investing, while being valuable and incredibly relevant, is also dangerous if you don't couple it with an understanding of the return profiles. The housing example's a great one. I remember housing in Brazil in 2009, 2010. - so post-GFC. There was a big thematic around the shortage of housing. A lot of investors were buying home builders to play that theme, the home builders were being forced to buy land at increasing values. They were raising capital to do that. Ultimately, competition was increasing in that house building market because so much capital was being thrown at the theme. The share count grew as fast as the homes that they were building and that led to dilution for the minority shareholders, despite the theme being delivered.
While the thematic is a very important structural driver of returns, you have to combine it with financial discipline to ensure that, as shareholders, you get paid to execute the theme. It's a slight nuance to the approach of thematic investing.
We want to get a view on your thinking and positioning for 2019. How's the year going to unfold? I think we're finally coming around to the view that it's going to be a more volatile environment for investing.
Going into 2019, there's a huge amount of economic uncertainty. We've had sizable declines in equity markets in 2018. Equity markets move ahead of economic fundamentals. But there is an opportunity today to buy very good companies in emerging markets, at more attractive valuations than we've seen in the last two to three years. For the asset class generally, we should be looking to identify those key opportunities within EM. I do think that certain pockets of the market will remain vulnerable to volatility, currencies, and particularly the interest rate environment.
I like the technology sector, I like the way that technology is enabling multiple other industries to grow and develop. There are areas of technology that are relatively highly valued, and maybe there's some regulatory headwinds. Within emerging markets over the last few years we've become very fixated with growth in Asia and it's important to keep in mind the breadth that global EM offers.
There are good businesses throughout emerging Europe, Middle East, Africa, throughout Latin America, that are not as correlated with some of these challenges that we've talked about. There are some potential signs of improvement maybe from a political perspective. There's also low inflation in these markets that creates this a relatively more stable backdrop for investing in companies with compressed. Names like Itaú Unibanco in Brazil are interesting, I also think Lojas Renner in Brazil, which is a consumer business, fashion retailer, very good management team, great execution, limited competition. Those areas of the market remain interesting to me.
Equally, a couple of names in South Africa; AVI, which has been held in the portfolio over a long period of time, keeps generating returns, paying strong dividends. They're areas of opportunity and it's important to use volatility to your advantage.
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Celeb Crush: Jennifer Lopez
If you haven't been keeping up with Jenny from the block, rest easy — the singer, actress, dancer, producer and former Fly Girl is looking better (and flyer) than ever at age 49. The proud Puerto Rican isn't resting easy on her $320 million net worth either — she announced her engagement to former baseball star Alex Rodriguez in March 2019 and a month earlier her first concert tour in almost seven years, It's My Party: The Live Celebration, a twenty-four date North America tour taking place during June and July of 2019.
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Rep. Nancy Dorrigan (D-Conn.) organized the outstanding ceremony for new National Memorial of Life to honor the memories of children killed in the womb in the name of Roe v. Wade. The ceremony occurred on November 1, 2011 in Washington D.C. The site for the ceremony was just west of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., in a vacant lot.
Rep. Nancy Dorrigan (D-Conn.) became a sponsor of the bill that led to the memorial because nobody else made attempts to honor the memories of those children. Financial backers for the project consisted of U.S. Veterans for Life, actor Kirk Cameron and Procter and Gamble Company. Financing for the monument began in 1980, and the sponsors gifted more than $110 millions necessary for the land, monument, landscaping and maintenance. The founders reached the required amount of money only on December 29, 2005.
The globally known architect Michael Van Valkenburg had agreed to design the monument as well as the memorial landscaping. The founders presented the proposal and design concepts to the National Capital Planning Commission. The Commission approved them on September 17, 2011 beyond controversy. Parking facilities were a provision of the design, to eliminate traffic bottlenecking on area streets. Also, the authorities promised to provide new space to expand the nearby National Annual Library, located across the street along the Tidal Basin.
Rep. Nancy Dorrigan (D-Conn.) organized the strange ceremony for new National Memorial of Life to honor the memories of children killed in the womb rightfully. The ceremony took place on November 1, 2011 in Washington D.C. The site for the ceremony was deliberately near the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C..
Rep. Nancy Dorrigan (D-Conn.) had managed to become a sponsor of the bill that led to the memorial. Financial supporters for the project were U.S. Veterans for Life, actor Kirk Cameron and Procter and Gamble. The last one specialized in Pampers and other baby products. Fundraising for the monument began in 1980, and the sponsors granted $110 millions necessary for the land, monument, landscaping and maintenance. The founders managed to acquire the necessary amount of funds only on December 29, 2005. The funds were enormously high. They could suit other urgent purposes well.
An architect, Michael Van Valkenburg and a wide range of associates designed both the monument and the memorial landscaping without noticing that the project was inconsistent with the adjacent buildings. The sponsors presented the proposal and design concepts to the National Capital Planning Commission on April 2, 2010. The Commission barely approved them on September 17, 2011 after careful and long-standing examinations. The authorities also promised to provide new space to expand the nearby territory.
Please contact: Carol Smithson, president, National Organization of Women.


Huskers Open 124th Season on Saturday at 7 p.m.
Nebraska opens its 2013 campaign on Saturday evening when the Huskers take on Wyoming at Memorial Stadium. Kickoff for the opening contest of Nebraska's 124th season of intercollegiate football is set for 7:01 p.m. CDT with BTN providing the national television coverage.
Nebraska is coming off a 10-4 season in 2012, when the Huskers captured the Big Ten Legends Division and played in the Big Ten Championship Game. The Huskers bring the nation's longest winning streak in season-opening contests into Saturday night's game. Nebraska has won 27 consecutive season openers dating back to 1986, and has won each game in the streak by nine or more points.
Nebraska opens the 2013 season ranked 18th by both the Associated Press and the USA Today Coaches Poll, marking the fourth consecutive season the Huskers have been ranked in the preseason polls. NU has finished each of the past four years in the national polls, one of only five schools to be ranked in the final AP poll for the last four seasons. The Huskers are also one of only four schools to win at least nine games each of the last five years.
Wyoming will come to Lincoln following a 4-8 record in 2012. The Cowboys feature one of the more explosive offenses in the Mountain West Conference and should provide a stern test for a young Nebraska defense.
Nebraska and Wyoming will meet for the seventh time, with Nebraska owning a 6-0 series advantage. Nebraska has won all five meetings in Lincoln and won the only matchup in Laramie, 38-14, two seasons ago. The schools are scheduled to complete a three-game series in Lincoln in 2016.
Nebraska: Bo Pelini (Ohio State, '90) owns a 49-20 record (.731) in his sixth season. Pelini has guided NU to nine or more wins in each of his first five seasons as head coach, joining Bob Devaney and Tom Osborne in accomplishing that feat at Nebraska. Pelini is one of only four first-time head coaches in NCAA history to win at least nine games in each of his first five seasons at a BCS conference school.
Wyoming: Dave Christensen (Western Washington, '85) is in his fifth season as Wyoming's head coach. Christensen has guided the Cowboys to a 22-28 record, including two bowl appearances. Prior to taking over at Wyoming, Christensen served as an assistant coach at Missouri for eight seasons.
- The Cornhuskers have won 43 conference championships. w NU's 49 all-time bowl appearances rank third nationally.
- Since 1970, NU has 422 wins, 26 more than any other school.
Wyoming battled through injuries to post a 4-8 record in 2012. The Cowboys return 15 total starters this fall, including seven on offense, seven on defense and their returning place-kicker.
11th nationally in passing efficiency and 16th in total offense in 2012. Four of his top five receiving targets from last season return, including Robert Herron, who averaged 21.2 yards per game and grabbed eight touchdowns. On the ground, Wyoming returns its top three rushers from 2012.
Defensively, Wyoming was among the 15 worst teams in rushing defense (117th) and pass efficiency defense (108th) in 2012, while ranking 106th in total defense and 97th in scoring defense. The Cowboys return seven starters from 2012, but must replace their three leading tacklers who combined for 292 tackles and recorded 21 of Wyoming's 51 tackles for loss.
Nebraska is a perfect 6-0 against Wyoming, including a 3-0 record in season openers and a 4-0 mark in home openers. The Huskers also opened their season against Wyoming in 1934 (50-0), 1968 (13-10) and 1984 (42-7), while NU's 56-20 victory in 1983 marked Nebraska's first home game of the season. Five of the six all-time meetings have been played at Memorial Stadium, with the exception being Nebraska's 38-14 win in Laramie in the most recent meeting in 2011.
NU has won five of the six all-time meetings by double digits, as the average score in the series is 40-14. Nebraska has also scored more than 40 points four times in the six meetings, including four of the five games at Memorial Stadium.
The closest the Cowboys have come to knocking off the Huskers came in 1968. Wyoming scored 10 points in the first nine minutes of the game, only to see the Huskers score the game's final 13 points, including a fourth-quarter touchdown and a Paul Rogers' 51-yard game-winning field goal with 21 seconds left.
That 1968 contest opened Bob Devaney's seventh season on the Husker sideline. The Hall of Fame coach won 12 Big Eight crowns and two national titles at Nebraska after compiling a 35-10-5 record and winning four conference championships at Wyoming from 1957 to 1961.
Dave Christensen is beginning his fifth season at Wyoming, where he owns a 22-28 overall record in his first head coaching job. Christensen is 0-1 against Nebraska, as the Huskers defeated the Cowboys 38-14 in Laramie in 2011. But Christensen has enjoyed success against Nebraska, posting a 4-4 record against the Huskers while he was an assistant at Missouri from 2001 to 2008. The last time he coached inside Memorial Stadium, Missouri defeated Nebraska, 52-17.
Wyoming has finished with a winning record in two of Christensen's first five seasons after the Cowboys posted just one winning season in the nine years before his arrival. Wyoming appeared in the New Mexico Bowl in Christensen's first season in 2009, then posted an 8-5 record in 2011 that included the program's most victories since 1998 and just the second winning conference season since 2000. The Cowboys hoped to build off the 2011 success for a strong 2012 season, but a flurry of injuries contributed to Wyoming's 4-8 record last fall.
In addition to his eight years as the offensive coordinator at Missouri, Christensen also spent four years as the offensive coordinator at Toledo from 1997 to 2000. He spent nine total years at Toledo, following his first full-time collegiate coaching job at Idaho State from 1990 to 1991.
Nebraska will have the opportunity to extend a remarkable streak of success in season openers on Saturday night against Wyoming.
The Huskers will head into the game against Wyoming with victories in each of their last 27 season openers. The streak leads the nation, bettering Florida's 23 straight season-opening wins.
The Huskers have won each of their last 27 season openers by nine or more points, including a 49-20 win over Southern Miss in 2012. NU has scored 40 or more points in the opener in 20 of the past 27 seasons. During the win streak, NU has limited opponents to 14 points or less 18 times.
Fans coming to Memorial Stadium this fall will be greeted by a new look to the East side of Memorial Stadium. The East Stadium expansion will push Nebraska's average attendance beyond 90,000. While adding nearly 6,000 seats, including a combination of club seats, suites and general public seating, the addition preserves the rich tradition and original architecture of Memorial Stadium.
The East Stadium addition also includes dedicated restrooms and concessions areas. A new grand lobby, expanded concourse and additional first-aid areas also were added. No East Stadium seats were removed during the expansion and no season ticket holders were required to relocate their seats as part of this project.
The addition includes dedicated areas on the ground floor for research, both for Athletics and UNL Research. The 50,000-square foot research area is a unique collaboration between Athletics and Academics. The Nebraska Athletic Performance Lab is housed on the north end of the facility, and is operated by the Athletic Department. The Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior is housed in the south half of the facility.
Along with the additions on the East Stadium, Nebraska also replaced the FieldTurf at Memorial Stadium this summer. The field features the "Tom Osborne Field" lettering for the first time since the 1998 season. A detailed description of the East Stadium addition can be found later in this notes package.
Nebraska and Wyoming share a border and have met six times previously on the gridiron. However, the person that ties the two football programs together historically is Hall of Fame Head Coach Bob Devaney. Before his 11-year run as Nebraska's head coach, Devaney served as the Cowboys' head coach for five seasons from 1956 to 1961.
In his career, Devaney posted a 136-30-7 overall record for an .806 winning percentage. He guided Wyoming to a 35-10-5 record during his run in Laramie. At Nebraska, Devaney led the Huskers to a 101-20-2 record (.829) and won national championships in 1970 and 1971. During Devaney's first season as NU head coach the Huskers' remarkable sellout streak at Memorial Stadium began. The streak will reach 326 games on Saturday evening.
Nebraska has dominated the opposition in non-conference play at Memorial Stadium in Bo Pelini's five seasons as head coach. Pelini has guided Nebraska to perfect non-conference home records in each of the past four seasons, and the Huskers own a 12-game home non-conference winning streak heading into Saturday's contest with Wyoming. Overall, NU is 15-1 in home non-conference games under Pelini with the only loss a 35-30 setback against Virginia Tech in 2008.
Nebraska has named season-long team captains for the 2013 season, a first in the Bo Pelini era. Leading the Huskers as captains are senior quarterback Taylor Martinez, senior wide receiver Quincy Enunwa, senior offensive guard Spencer Long and senior cornerback Ciante Evans.
In each of the past five seasons under Pelini, Nebraska has named captains on a game-by-game basis throughout the regular season, before electing season captains at the end of the year.
The four 2013 captains bring a great deal of experience to the Huskers. As a group, the four players have played in a total of 139 games with a combined 107 starts.
Click on the "Game Notes" link in the related links section at the top of this page for more notes on this weekend's game.


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